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Choir Director and organist Jared Jacobsen plays the organ and leads the Chautauqua Choir Sunday, Aug 18, 2019. ALEXANDER WADLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sunday’s Sacred Song Service promises to be both nostalgic and haunting. “At the end

Music Director Wynton Marsalis, center, plays the trumpet alongside the combined Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in playing the National Anthem before playing Marsalis', "The Jungle," during the concert on Tuesday,

Eberhardt Jennifer Eberhardt believes that in order to overcome bias, it must first be embraced. “Bias is not a trait but a state,” said Eberhardt, an author and professor of psychology at Stanford University, in

Sutton The Rt. Rev. Eugene Sutton thinks the United States has been given an incredible opportunity. “We can show the world that the world can live in peace,” said Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese

williams The Rev. angel Kyodo williams believes that addressing racism in the United States can lead to the sense of belonging the American dream promised, but never fully delivered on. A multiracial, black and queer

Jared Jacobsen, organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music, practices for of the 2019 season. SARAH YENESEL/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Organists are sensitive to the suggestion that their instruments aren’t musical ones. “Because it’s basically a

Organist, and coordinator of worship and sacred music, Jared Jacobsen, speaks at the beginning of the "In Remebrance" service on Sunday, August 11, 2019 in the Ampitheater. Jacobsen created this annual service in 2010.MHARI SHAW/STAFF

Simran Jeet Singh’s worldview doesn’t allow for the existence of evil. “Everything is equally divine and sacred and beautiful,” said Singh, an author, activist and senior fellow at the Sikh Coalition. “This idea — that

Heather McGhee was a guest on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” when she received a call from a white male listener who was openly racist. But instead of issuing a hateful diatribe, this caller frankly admitted his

In a world roiled by conflict, Hardy Merriman wants to project a message of hope. “I want to talk about the emerging challenge of rising authoritarianism in the world, and declining democracies,” said Merriman, an

Jared Jacobsen was looking for music for this week’s Tallman Tracker Organ concert when he ran across a couple of musical pieces that all had paysages — French for “landscapes” — printed on them. “That

Moyers His resume, too long to list in full, stretches all the way from before the John F. Kennedy administration to the present day. As the White House press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson,